FreeQ

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Zero-setup end-to-end encrypted message queue for free in 1 line of python

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TL;DR;

No need to set up a server, a DB, redis, dedicated queue, hosted pub/sub and worrying about free tier limits, or anything. pip install freeq and go

Install:

pip install -U freeq

Publisher:

> from freeq import Queue
> q = Queue(name='thisismyqueuename',                       # made up, super unique
            access_key='so_noone_can_write_to_my_queue',    # made up, identifies the queue along with name
            secret_key='i_shit_when_i_sneeze')              # made up, never leaves the client
> q.put({"pool_temperature": "too low"})

Consumer:

> from freeq import Queue
> q = Queue(name='thisismyqueuename',                       # made up, super unique
            access_key='so_noone_can_write_to_my_queue',    # made up, identifies the queue along with name
            secret_key='i_shit_when_i_sneeze')              # made up, never leaves the client
> event = q.get()

Limitations

The server runs on free-tier infra (for now), so each queue is limited to:

• 2048 messages per queue
• 2048 bytes per message (after encryption and compression)
• messages expire after 48 hours

You can run your own server to get around this. Configure the client to use it with env vars: FREEQ_SERVER_ADDRS=https://server1.com,https://server2.com

Contributing

PRs and issues are welcome, there is barely any code so should be easy to get a grasp of it.

OpenAPI / swagger schema available @ https://weyland.yutani.enterprises/docs so feel free to generate a client for [insert language] using e.g. openapi-generator.

Please make sure your client encrypts everything and doesn't spam the API too much.